Success of the Surge

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Jon Stewart Mocks John McCain During Oscars

Huffington Post | Posted 02.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Oscar host Jon Stewart mocked republican presidential candidate John McCain during his opening monologue. "The films that were made about the Iraq wa...

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Iraqi PM: al-Qaida Chased From Baghdad

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics

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BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister said Friday that U.S. and Iraqi troops have chased al-Qaida in Iraq out of Baghdad in the year since a security ...

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Snow: Bush Iraq Surge Opposed By 80% Of Advisers

Think Progress | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics

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When announcing the Iraq "surge" last January, President Bush emphasized that he and his advisers led a "comprehensive" review of past mistakes in Ira...

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American-Armed Sunnis Attack Iraq Police Forces

AFP | Posted 02.10.2008 | Politics

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Hundreds of members of an anti-Al-Qaeda front in Iraq's central city of Baquba on Friday donned keffiyeh headdresses and took to the streets demanding...

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Security Gains From Surge Backsliding

Washington Independent | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

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It was the crescendo of an otherwise flat State of the Union address. "Ladies and Gentlemen," President George W. Bush declared Monday night, "some ma...

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U.S. Commanders in Iraq Favor Pause in Troop Cuts

Washington Post | Thomas Ricks | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics

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Senior U.S. military commanders here say they want to freeze troop reductions starting this summer for at least a month, making it more likely that th...

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Pelosi Slams Bush Over Iraq "Progress"

Washington Times | S.A. Miller | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ridiculed President Bush yesterday for saying in his State of the Union speech Monday night that the United States is winni...

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US Troops Reductions May Slow or Stop

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is sending strong signals that U.S. troop reductions in Iraq will slow or stop altogether this summer, a mo...

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Hidden Costs to the War in Iraq -- The Problems We Face

Rep. John Murtha | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

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Five years since the beginning of the war in Iraq, the political and economic situation on the ground has changed little, while the rest of the world, including the United States, has changed significantly.

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One Year Later, Surge Accomplishes 3 Of 18 Benchmarks

Center For American Progress | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics

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On the one year anniversary of President Bush's State of the Union address justifying his "New Way Forward" in Iraq, it is clear that the surge has fa...

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GOPers All Pledge Allegiance To War In Iraq

Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics

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During Thursday's Republican debate, moderator Tim Russert asked the candidates: Was the war in Iraq a good idea and has it been worth the blood and t...

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Attacks Imperil U.S.-Backed Militias in Iraq

NY Times | SOLOMON MOORE and RICHARD A. OPPEL | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

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American-backed Sunni militias who have fought Sunni extremists to a standstill in some of Iraq's bloodiest battlegrounds are being hit with a wave of...

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Joint Chiefs To Give Own View On Troop Cuts In Iraq

Associated Press | Robert Burns | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

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The Pentagon's top generals and admirals will make their own assessment for President Bush on whether to continue pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq in t...

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Defense Minister: Iraq Will Need US Help Until 2018

NY Times | Thom Shanker | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

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The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be able...

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Bush: We Could "Easily" Be In Iraq For Another 10 Years

Reuters | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics

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U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday the United States would have a long-term presence in Iraq that could "easily" last a decade, but that it ...

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New Iraq Approach Acknowedges Benchmarks Unmet

Washington Post | Karen DeYoung and Thomas Ricks | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics

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In the year since President Bush announced he was changing course in Iraq with a troop "surge" and a new strategy, U.S. military and diplomatic offici...

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The Media And The Military: A Tale Of Modern Love

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics

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In New York Times we learn that the press and the Pentagon are back in love with one another. Such good news!

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Pentagon And The Media Fall In Love Again

NY Times | Tom Shanker | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics

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The anguished relationship between the military and the news media appears to be on the mend as battlefield successes from the troop increase in Iraq ...

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McCain: 'I Dont Think Americans Are Concerned' If We Stay In Iraq For '10,000 Years'

Think Progress | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics

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Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said it "would be fine with" him if the U.S. military stayed in Iraq for "a hundred years" or even a "million years...

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Iraq Middle Class Is Languishing

LA Times | Tina Susman and Raheem Salman | Posted 01.06.2008 | Politics

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Night after night, hour after hour, Hussein Ali Mohammed sits alone in the medical clinic that employs him as a guard. It is not the job the 26-year-...

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The Surge and American Military Triumphalism

Gareth Porter | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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The triumphalist vision of Iraq embraced by large segments of the American political elite and news media depends on an understanding of the conflict that omits all the facts that are inconvenient.

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The Top Eleven Myths about Iraq, 2007

Michael Schwartz | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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The Iraq myth I find most galling is that the surge has led to the pacification of large parts of Anbar province and Baghdad.

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24,000 civilian Iraqi deaths in 2007

The Daily Telegraph | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

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US-led coalition and paramilitary forces in Iraq were responsible for some 24,000 violent civilian deaths in 2007, according to an independent group m...

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Iraq Healthcare Worse Than Before War

BBC News | Posted 12.24.2007 | Politics

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Iraq's health system is in a far worse condition than before the war, a British medical charity says. Doctors from the group Medact conducted surveys...

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Here Comes Moqtada

Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics

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The violence has gone down in Iraq, but it's not because we have more troops there. It's because the Sunnis and the Mahdi Army have stopped fighting us ... for now.

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